Allow me to ask as a great personal favor, that you give the
enclosed card publicity, in order that those of your city who know
me may see that I am again at liberty, having been entirely
exonerated from the foul charges brought against me in some of the
Northern journals. Respectfully, T. Tumblety, M.D.

To the Editor of the Star:

After three weeks' imprisonment in the Old Capitol Prison, in this
city, I have been unconditionally and honorably released from
confinement by direction of the Secretary of War, there being no
evidence whatever to connect me with the yellow fever, or
assassination plot, with which some of the Northern journals have
charged me of having some knowledge. My arrest appears to have
grown out of a statement made in a low, licentious sheet published
in New York, to the effect that Dr. Blackburn, who has figured so
unenviably in the hellish yellow fever plot, was no other person
than myself. In reply to this statement I would most respectfully
say to an ever-generous public that I do not know this fiend in
human form named Dr. Blackburn, nor have I ever seen him in my
life. For the truth of this assertion I can bring hundreds of
distinguished persons throughout the United States to vouch for my
veracity, and, if necessary can produce certificates from an
innumerable number of gentlemen in high official positions.

While in imprisonment I noticed in some of the New York and other
northern papers, a paragraph setting forth that the villain Harold,
who now stands charged with being one of the conspirators in the
attrocious assassination plot, was at one time in my employ. This,
too, is false in every particular, and I am at loss to see how it
originated, or to trace it to its origin. For the past five years
I have had but one man in my employment, and he is yet with
me, his character being beyond reproach. I never saw Harold to my
knowledge, and I have no desire to see him.

Another paper has gone so far as to inform the public that I was an
intimate acquaintance of Booth's; but this, too, is news to me, as
I never spoke to him in my life, or any of his family.

I do hope that the papers which so industriously circulated these
reports connecting me with these damnable deeds, to the very great
injury of my name and reputation, will do me the justice to publish
my release, and the fact of my having been entirely exonerated by
the authorities here, who, after a diligent investigation, could
obtain no evidence that would in the least tarnish my fair
reputation.

I feel it but due to the authorities here to state that, while in
the Old Capitol, I was treated with the utmost kindness and
consideration; and was placed in the same quarters assigned to
Governor Vance, Governor Brown, Hon. Mr. Lamar, and others of note.

With these few remarks in justice to myself, I will close by
submitting them to the public.

Respectfully, Dr. F. Tumblety.

[We give the above card from Mr. Tumblety that he may have the full
benefit of his statements where this is known. When the Doctor was
in Brooklyn the young man who was with him, and who was since
identified with Harold, gave his name indifferently as Farrell and
Blackburn, and the Doctor used the latter name at one time in his
business. However, as the Doctor has been discharged it is fair to
suppose that he is innocent of any offence against the government.]